The British Museum, located near Russell Square in London, is about half an hour's drive from the town of Windsor.

On the last Sunday of September, after meeting with Benjamin and Monte on Wednesday, Hall finally got out of his academic load and left school for a private appointment with Monte in London.

"I'm sorry to disturb your family's weekend."

In the Deweyne Gallery, Hall sincerely apologizes to Monte's wife and two children.

Monte's wife was dressed in a red coat with the most fashionable polka-dot white silk scarf tied on her chest, and smiled enthusiastically: "I was next to Monte when she received your call yesterday. When he hung up and told me that you had invited our family to visit the museum, I thought I had misheard, and that it was an honor to receive an invitation from a gentleman of your social status. ”

England has never been a country that shy away from talking about social class, although many times the descendants of the aristocracy report their families to give people the same funny feeling as some people in later generations who say that their surname is "Aixin Jueluo", but this represents only the group of nobles who have settled down.

For the aristocrats like the Hall family, who are still full of social energy, most ordinary people will not find it funny, but on the contrary, they will give birth to a lot of eagerness that cannot be thought about.

"Mr. Monte is the Hall family's closest business partner." Hall deliberately replied with an RP accent.

Monte's wife couldn't help but raise her head: "No, I guess you don't have a close relationship with Monte, because everyone else calls him Lao Meng, and only a very gentlemanly big man like you would call him sir." After saying that, he laughed to himself.

Could it be that this is the unique humor of the British, and there is no laugh at all, and Hall shows an elegant and polite smile.

“…… Okay, you can take the kids to visit first, I have something to talk about with Mr. Hall. ”

Monte interrupted the conversation and walked away from his wife, who were still unsatisfied, and Hale smiled and waved at the two little children who looked back at him as they walked, their eyes full of curiosity.

"After consideration, I don't plan to change my mind, and I still take [CFD], 4X10 times, oh no, 55 times leverage." Hall gets straight to the point.

Monte didn't react: "So you got your mother's permission to do this?" ”

"At first I tried to persuade, to communicate, to do something openly and honestly. Now I'm tired and tired of facing one obstacle after another, and I just want to achieve my goal in the simplest and most effective way. So, don't play dumb, you should know exactly why I asked you out alone. Hall was very polite.

Monte smiled helplessly: "I can't bear your mother's wrath afterwards, and our company can't afford to "trap" the reputation of "trapping" an English aristocratic child. If you wear a position, no one will say how paranoid you are, how crazy you are, your peers will just say: Look, their fund company slaughtered a 16-year-old child like a fat sheep. ”

"What's your annual salary?" Hall pulled out his checkbook.

Monte was silent, Hall swiped the signature in his hand, and said vaguely with a pen cap in his mouth: "Twenty thousand pounds, or thirty thousand pounds?" ”

When he signed his name for the tenth time on a cheque with the amount of "twenty thousand pounds" written in advance, Monte said, "Why must you choose me?" ”

"Because you had a financial meeting at my house that day, you drove the worst car, and I want to help you buy a good car." Hall stopped signing.

Monte didn't find the joke funny, and Hall pouted in embarrassment and turned his head to look at a family of three visiting the museum not far away.

"There are so many people serving the Hall family, Benjamin is my overseer, and you, the minor character who was temporarily transferred back from Liverpool by a phone call. You don't dare to cheat me, and you don't have a reason to obey my mother 100%. A middle-aged account manager with connections, work experience, and two children. I can't think of a better candidate than you in a short period of time. ”

Monte was even more helpless when he heard this, he obviously didn't do anything, just because he was "easy to handle", he was targeted by a 16-year-old aristocratic kid and forcibly tied up to join a crazy gambling game.

He wants a stable life more than 200,000 pounds......

"I'm not forcing you, swear in the name of the Hall family." Hal paused and added solemnly.

"Shit, why are you giving me a choice?!"

Monte scolded viciously in his heart, and looked at his wife and a pair of children not far away: "You have to make sure that no matter what the outcome, I am not in trouble, at least not from your mother." ”

"Deal, if you do well, I'll give you a job." Hall laughed, very happily, "Your wife is wearing the same outfit as Diana, it costs a lot of money." ”

Monte looked around: "How did we hide from Lawyer Benjamin?" ”

"My mom won't be able to come back next month, the money is in my account, and Benjamin can't check the movement of the funds. I'm going to do it next month, so you just have to cooperate with me to hold Benjamin and tell him I'm going to do it in November. Hall had this plan in place back when he returned to school last weekend.

Monte frowned, "It's that simple? ”

"What do you think?"

"You think of your mom as too simple, she's a 16-year-old ...... who inherited a big fortune Single mothers. ”

Hall looked back.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to be offended! I just want to prove that your mom is very good...... Give me one person, or one identity, and I'll do the rest. Monte raised his hands and spoke very quickly.

"It's a pleasure to work with."

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"The Female History of Zhentu", the famous painting of Gu Kai of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the original work has been lost, and there is a copy of the Tang Dynasty in the British Museum.

In later generations, due to technical preservation reasons, this painting was exhibited every year for a limited time, but at present, because the painting is still in good condition, it is exhibited throughout the year.

“…… Go to the 70,000-mile long distance, farewell to the motherland and parents, and have no regrets! Comrades, we must not forget ......"

"Professor Chen, don't get excited, don't get angry, we're too close."

An old gentleman dressed in Zhongshan was emotionally speaking Mandarin with a strong Jiangnan accent to several companions, and a young man wearing the same Zhongshan suit and glasses next to him hurriedly grabbed the old gentleman and whispered persuasion.

Then the two muttered a few words, and the old gentleman took a few steps back indignantly and scolded, "This mother's egg cannon."

The young man's ears were red, and he spoke to the docent standing in front of the crowd in fluent English: "Sorry, we can't imagine this...... There are so many antiques and it was very shocking. ”

"Every day visitors from all over the world are shocked, but please restrain yourself and stop behaving rudely." The narrator looked around at the crowd.

Hall leaned in and said in Chinese: "Honestly, you can go to the Deweine exhibition hall, it's even more shocking, they moved the whole temple of Greece into it." ”

As soon as these words came out, the old gentleman and several companions behind him looked at the former in amazement.

"Is my Chinese pronunciation okay?" This is my elective course for this semester. Hall's body muscle memory makes his pronunciation very lame, and it sounds like some dialect version of Mandarin.

Several Chinese people quickly exchanged glances, and the old gentleman asked, "Hello, may I ask ...... you?"

"My name is Hall and I'm a student, uh...... Professor Chan: Yes? Sorry, it's rare to meet Chinese speakers in London, so I'd like to talk to you a few words and practice speaking. Hall gave a reasonable reason.

Professor Chen was a little confused, but this year, when he met a foreigner on the national campus, the bold and thick-skinned students surrounded him and chatted with people to practice his oral English.

I didn't expect to go abroad and meet the opposite, foreigners take the initiative to learn our Chinese!

"Ah, welcome, welcome, but our ......" Professor Chen sighed from the bottom of his heart, but looked at the narrator with a cold expression on the side.

Hall switched back to English and said to the narrator, "Sorry sir, interrupting your work. My name is Hugo Hall, I am a student at Eton College, I took Chinese this semester, and I hope to talk to them to practice speaking. I will write a thank you letter to the museum. ”

"No problem, thank you very much Mr. Hall for your affirmation, I am only responsible for receiving them today." The docent did not hesitate to respond.

With a serious aristocratic accent, and seemingly valuable clothing and watches, he had no doubt that what he said was true or false, and he was able to attend Eton College...... He was already wondering if it was a thank you letter from Eton College or a thank you letter from Mr. Hall's family.

Hall gets to the point: "Do they have any special status?" ”

"Yes, they are from ...... Uh, sorry, I forgot the name of that city, they were a delegation sent by the city government to form a sister city with the city of Leeds. The narrator said.

Hall switched to Chinese again: "No problem, I've already told him." Can you talk to me? ”

Professor Chen didn't know what the decent-looking young man in front of him and the narrator meant by the bird language, so he just nodded: "Convenient, convenient, what do you want to talk about?" ”

"Let's talk about it...... It's not easy for you to come to London, right? Hall didn't know what to talk about, he just heard the Chinese subconsciously come over, there was no purpose, just wanted to say a few words.

Professor Chen sighed: "It's not easy, I have come and gone several times. ”

"How does it feel about London?" Hall smiled.

"Expensive! The price of goods here is too high, do you know what the price means, that is, to buy food and drink, the price is too expensive. Professor Chen said this with a kind of gnashing of teeth.

Hall thought of a joke he had heard in his previous life: "London makes money and London spends, and I want to take it home." Big cities are like this, and it is not easy to live in the capital. ”

"Do you know that? …… Gude, Wai Rui Good! ”

"I still know what that shitch cannon means."

“……”

“…… But that's a good point, and I hope you all have a good trip. I'm going to take my leave, and I'm glad to be able to talk to you. ”

"That's not going to talk about it?"

"Come and come home with fun, I still have something, and you have something to do."

With a wave of his hand, Hale turned around and finally said to the docent: "I suggest that you receive them in the best possible condition, for it is a matter of pride in England, as the Queen's people, as a nobleman, and I do not want them to come back to their own country and use words related to "uncivilized" when they describe England to people." What do you think? ”

"Yes, Mr. Hall." The docent, thinking to himself how to convince his neighbors after work, that today he had spoken to a true nobleman about the pride of England.

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"What did the young man say to him at the end that made him turn a hundred and eighty degrees?" Professor Chan asked.

The bespectacled young man whispered back, "He said what kind of aristocrat he was, to educate the docents to be civilized, to preserve the pride of England......"

"Huh, could it be that we have met a big person? If a dog looks down on people, it is a lack of education...... But the nobility ...... This set of things is not good, we don't want to learn. Professor Chen muttered.

Several young companions behind him reacted differently, and they were all silent.

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"Sister Cities, Tourism."

This reminded Hall of a man who met Monte's requirements - Brandon, a self-motivated young man......